Seven ways to accept all of your life experiences — even the “bad” ones — and learn to expand from “contractions” like loss, hurt and other wounds
GUEST COLUMN: PHYLLIS KING — We are always eager to get on with it — to leave the past behind and to feel the “good” stuff. I understand this [...]

Tags: higher consciousness, phyllis king, spiritual reality

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An addiction therapist’s mantra: remove your blinds. Owning the compulsions in our lives is Act One in a script for mending ourselves spiritually, emotionally and physically
BY MARY COOK, M.A., R.A.S. — Only a holistic approach can offer significant improvement, because we have been damaged and have damaged ourselves in all of these areas.
While not blaming [...]

Tags: anatomy of addiction, higher power, Mary Cook, recovery

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Daniel Woo is a Seattle lawyer who deals with screaming people. . . in litigation, in road rage, in any time and place. Here he reveals his personal method for not taking it personally.

GUEST COLUMN: DANIEL D. WOO — When my own mind is in turmoil, or when another person is literally screaming at me, [...]

Tags: Buddhist, Daniel Woo, metta, projections, shantideva, tonglen

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The reality show raises awareness of addiction by televising celebrities like Dennis Rodman, Tom Sizemore and Heidi Fleiss in treatment. Does it have lessons for addicts in America at large, or is it voyuerism?

BY DAVID RICKEY — One only has to watch the intake interviews for Celebrity Rehab, the reality show on the VH1 cable [...]

Tags: anatomy of addiction, Byron Katie, Caroline Myss, Celebrity Rehab Season 3, Celebrity seekers, Dennis Rodman, Dr. Drew, Heidi Fleiss, object constancy, Tom Sizemore

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My first “faith”: Catholic guilt, playing Purgatory, Priests who molested, and kissing cousins
BY MARINA GIULLIANI — Read part 1 and part 2 of this Soul’s Code exclusive from the book, Sins of my Faith
Outsiders would say I’m a serial victim of sexual abuse. I reject the word victim because I consider myself a champion and I resist [...]

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A Soul’s Code insider asked herself, “Can enlightenment happen through meditation or practice?” Drawing on examples like Eckhart Tolle, her personal experience and science, the answer is: Yes

BY STACIA TOPPING — I began meditating about two and a half years ago, at the urging of a then-friend (translation: a fellow I was very briefly dating.) [...]

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In the second part of a Soul’s Code exclusive from the book Sins of My Faith, Marina explains that what seems like denial is self-protection

BY MARINA GIULLIANI (read part one) : “It hit me like a cold slap. That’s when it all started!” I made the connection on a chilly February afternoon, but didn’t realize [...]

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Psychotherapist Dr. Nancy Irwin shows how you can reprogram your subconscious mind and make it work for you — in every facet of your life

GUEST COLUMN: DR. NANCY B. IRWIN — As a doctor of psychology and a therapeutic hypnotist, I know for a fact that we are all born to win.
By “win” I don’t [...]

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A priest and psychotherapist finds answers in Genesis, the work of Carl Jung and the science of meditation

BY DAVID RICKEY — Hate crimes are nothing new. They have been around ever since the homo sapien emerged from its evolutionary forebears.  Animals have an instinctive “fight or flight” response built into their brain structure.
Human beings, as [...]

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BY DAVID RICKEY — As the 2010 season of The Bachelor nears its March 1 finale, curiosity about what Americans think dating is really about got the best of me. I am a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, and hardly an avid watcher of Reality TV, so this posed a bit of a challenge.
My personal routine [...]

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When people like Tiger Woods are treated for destructive behaviors, they often slip into new ones. An addiction specialist shares her spiritual insights into the causes and cures of addiction
GUEST COLUMN BY MARY COOK, M.A. — Addiction is death.
It is the death of dreams and hope, of the real self and self-esteem, of genuine relationships with [...]

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A heart-breaking work of staggering honesty: Sins of My Faith. In this Soul’s Code exclusive, a woman who lost her innocence to incest explains why she did not “out” her abuser
BY MARINA GIULLIANI: It’s commonly understood that incest refers to “sexual acts between close relatives”, but I know from first-hand experience that incest is a heinous [...]

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Tom Hanks newest patron of Da Vinci Code church
Tom Hanks has personally donated to help restore Scotland’s Rosslyn Chapel, where part of The Da Vinci Code was filmed. According to Dan Brown’s novel, the chapel was built by the Knights Templar, marks a point on the “Rose Line”, or prime meridian, and contains several  esoteric [...]

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Soul’s Code has criticized Ray and the franchise that made him famous, The Secret. One of our columnists, who is a spiritual practitioner in her own right, urges us to extend compassion to both the victims and accused
GUEST COLUMN: CARI LA GRANGE MURPHY — The topics of spiritual authenticity, accountability, compassion, and soul growth are [...]

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If the act of thinking registers in brain scans, what are those thoughts doing to your body? A spiritual teacher who self-healed from two terminal diagnoses shares some miraculous mind-body mechanics

BY VAISHALI LOVE: After being diagnosed terminal from an illness — and then again ten years later from an injury — there is one thing I [...]

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Like the Earth itself, we are all vulnerable to the energy within us
GUEST COLUMN BY HEATHER GREAVES — The Earth in all her pain (toxicity) and glory has faults.
Likewise, we human beings with all our broken dreams and victories, have faults.
As below our feet. . .so it is above.
The year 2010 has begun with Earth [...]

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How to turn MySpace into Our space: A contemporary shaman’s response to hate-mail

GUEST COLUMN: DAWN DANCING OTTER — Everywhere I go, in every moment, the ongoing mantra in my mind is a repetition of the four graces of Ho’oponopono — “I am sorry, I love you, please forgive me, thank you.”  What I have come to realize is [...]

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“I can feel the years of fears, abandonments and hungers. And then, I let it all go in acceptance.”

GUEST COLUMN: JULIA TUCHMAN — I have never been very good at surrendering. I have been the fighter — the hold-on-to-the-side-of-the-cliff, fight-for-your-life, never-give-up and “go down with the ship” kind of soul. It was exhausting work, and [...]

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Childhood friends, then enemies, come to terms with their past
BY DANIEL D. WOO, 1st of 2 parts — In 1960 when I was in 7th grade, a bunch of kids started the “Boo for Woo” club.  I was furious.
Our family moved to the United States in 1953 when I spoke only Mandarin Chinese and not [...]

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Forget what you’ve learned about romance on “reality” shows like The Bachelor. Here are five tips on how to love in the real world.
GUEST COLUMN: PHYLLIS KING — Love is an all-inclusive vibration — it is an action word.
Although it is not a feeling per se, we can create a feeling of adoration and appreciation for others.
We all [...]

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